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Books at a Bargain Price of 50 Pesos @ Bridges (formerly, Goodwill) Bookstores
By philobean | August 12, 2007
Notice how the once three- (or was it four-) storey Goodwill Bookstore at Glorietta 1 closed to become a one-storey bookstore that looks almost exactly like the old Goodwill’s ground floor? The new bookstore’s named Bridges. Nothing really great about Bridges (as it is, in essence, nothing but a reduced version of the old Goodwill).
Well, that may be true…but ever wondered where all those other books (once displayed across three-/four-storeys’ full of shelves) have gone? A small (but not quite insignificant) portion of that bulk’s gone on sale (for as low as twenty pesos per copy!) And this is happening across a good number (I’d say all but I really haven’t been to them all yet) of Goodwill Bookstores across the Metro.
A week back I picked up copies of Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s Future Shock and War and Anti-War, both at 50 a piece. Today, I picked up four business books (two on business process reengineering, one Harvard Business School Press publication and one on Asia Megatrends) all at 50 a piece. Not exactly pristiene condition but its really not bad (no where near Book Sale book quality, that is).
While most of these books are (well) out-dated (circa 1995), its better to have read an old book then to have read none at all, especially when it requires an investment of only 50 pesos plus some spare time! Besides, some (not all) of these books are timeless!
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